You see them everywhere. Humongous lips that overtake nearly every other feature of an otherwise attractive face. Then there are the botched lip filler news stories. But WHY are we seeing so many lip augmentation disasters – or botched lip fillers – by Cosmetic Injectors? Why are there so many seriously over-filled lips in Australia across the globe? And how can you enhance your lip shape, but not reach the point of the dreaded ‘trout mouth’ syndrome? And how are the hottest facial rejuvenation trends changing?
But in brief, it seems that clients – and unscrupulous injectors – aren’t readily recognising when ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
That’s why we’re seeing so many of the so-called “duck face” over-volumised lips (“crazy lips” after lip augmentation procedures). Not to mention the Kim Kardashian look-alike cheek-filler and lip-filler trends.
Our Coco Ruby Blog team believes that over-volumised lips are something this generation will look back upon, with the same disdain – and disbelief – that people now look back on the massive shoulder pads and teased-up hair they once adored in the crazy eighties.
Click here to read more on other new trends in facial rejuvenation and cosmetic injections. But if you’re wanting to avoid a BOTCHED lip filler story – or other lip filler disasters – continue reading THIS BLOG.
Injectables and dermal fillers are popular for people of many different ages, from their 20s and 30s through to later decades. A conservative approach to using dermal fillers or lip fillers can get natural-looking results. But too much of a good thing – too many lip injections or too much filler – can result in a “puffer face” or “trout-pout” look.
The over-zealous use of Dermal Fillers can actually leave patients looking older. Injecting skillfully requires a very experienced injecting approach. It also requires extensive knowledge of how much filler to use, what brand and what consistency or product within that line of injectable skin and lip fillers.
You need to choose a seasoned, conservative injector (less is more). You also need to know what to watch out for in terms of filler product lines and quality injecting strategies. Not all fillers, nor cosmetic injectors, are equal. Fortunately at Coco Ruby, our injectors pride themselves on getting natural-looking enhancements using a temporary-filler-solution gel-based injectables and anti-wrinkle injectables for lines and creases.
They also use cosmetic injections alongside the leading Plastic Surgeons in Melbourne. Coco Ruby is truly your one-stop cosmetic injection location for Injectables therapies. These include anti-ageing wrinkle reducing products and dermal fillers for lips, cheeks, chins, noses and tear troughs. Even your temples can be enhanced to give your face a more balanced, youthful look!
What this means is that small amounts of filler are injected, into the lips and other areas of the face.
Small adjustments using filler injections and anti-wrinkle injections can then be made.
They may appear subtle, but they are strategically placed for maximum effect on facial contours, as whole . This means that small filler volumes in the right places can make all the difference for your overall appearance.
But meanwhile, many people are falling victim to the ‘more is more’ mentality of getting endless dermal filler injections in their lips or cheeks.
Simply stated, humongous lips don’t look more luscious. They look distorted.
When it comes to overly augmented lips, lips with too much filler in them often look unnatural and – for some women and men – disturbingly enlarged.
And that’s a good thing.
Because otherwise, over-filled body parts – and over-volumised facial features – can end up looking museum-worthy, but ‘scary on the street’.
No where is this disproportionately-sized facial injecting strategy more visible, perhaps, than on social media sites under the category of makeup, big lips and humongous lips.
If your lips are larger in volume than that of both your eyes combined, you’ve probably succumbed to over filling.
According to our talented Senior Injecting Clinician, Sandra Wallace (RN/Div 1), over-volumised lips are still a massive problem in Melbourne and other parts of Australia.
Big lips are OUT; Balance is IN.
Here’s how to NOT let it happen to you!
Want a bit more lip, but afraid you’ll soon be looking like you have the lips of a baboon?
Here’s how to NOT get caught out with over-sized lips.
Senior Cosmetic Injector, Sandra Wallace (RN/Div 1), affirms that the skill of a Cosmetic Injector is one of the KEY aspects of keeping your facial balance or ‘aesthetic alignment.’
“And that holds true for whether you’re augmenting the lips, cheeks, temples, chin or jawline,” Sandra advises, “and even if you’re filling in the tear troughs to remove dark shadows under the lower eyelid.”
“Your injector must take into account ALL of your features, and how even the subtlest of changes in your facial anatomy are going to effect your overall appearance. A skilled injector not only knows WHAT to inject – in terms of the numerous dermal filler options available today – but how much, where and how. But perhaps their most important skill is advising you on WHEN you’ve had enough – or if you’ve been somewhere else, when you’ve had too much – and what you can do about it (which is often simply waiting it out, balancing it out, or starting again).”
The Trout Pout should be avoided at all costs.
As we noted in our article on the latest cosmetic injections and facial rejuvenation treatment trends:
But for the most part, they have a highly trained eye – and precision injecting strategies – for knowing where to make adjustments.
But sadly, there are far too many beautiful women who’ve taken enhancement a few steps – perhaps even a few kilometers – too far.
Examples: Over-Volumised Lip Augmentations using Excess Dermal Filler
In the example below (found on Pinterest), a very attractive woman exhibits precision talent in applying makeup on her lips and eyes. But either she – or an unscrupulous injecting clinician – took her lip augmentation injections too far.
Her lips are seriously over-volumised. Whilst she’s likely developed a psychological or visual tolerance for having super-sized lips, no doubt she’ll look back in a few years time, and wonder what she – and others who fell prey to super-sizing their lips through augmentation – were thinking.
Just take a look on Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook.You can’t help but notice that women everywhere are falling pray to ‘more is more’ with lip filler injections for lip enlargement.
But the reality is the opposite: overly large lips can simply look grotesque, disproportionate or out of balance.
“Top ups are nice. But you don’t have to keep going larger each time.” says Sandra Wallace RN
“It’s better to start slowly, find the right volume, and stick with it. It’s always tempting to do more, but once you find the right balance – it’ll still look natural as well as potentially magnificent,” she continues.
“You need to ask not only your closest friends, but your family and acquaintances, for their honest opinions about whether or not your lip augmentation has gone to volumised. Most friends will be willing to tell you (so long as they haven’t fallen prey to the puffer-trout lip injections trends, themselves) – but are afraid you just won’t listen.”
Anonymous: “My friends were trying to tell me, ‘they look perfect, don’t go any larger – they’re big enough as they are’ – but I kept thinking, ah, a little more, a little bit bigger, would be better. Fortunately I trusted my friends who were beauty bloggers, and dermal clinicians. I felt they at least had an educated idea of what they were talking about. Of course I listened…but it was difficult, at first, to resist the temptation of getting even more filler in my lips. I had to hear it repeatedly before I heeded their advice and left them as they were. But now I’m glad I did.”
Far too many for our beauty blogger’s sensibilities. If you’re not sure, search PINTEREST for “big lips” or “big lips and makeup” and you’ll find an endless sea of trout-pout looking faces – all of which would look so much more aesthetically balanced with the right sized lip enhancement.
Moderation is the key.
Along with your eyes and nose, your mouth is one of the key focal points on of your face. If you suffer from an uneven smile, thin lips (or a very thin upper lip) or a ‘gummy’ smile (where too much gum shows between your teeth and lips), lip injections and dermal fillers will meet your needs. But there are many different types of fillers for lips, and you’ll want to discuss your options with an experienced, qualified Lip Enhancement Injector. Because the last thing you want is to end up with a ‘trout pout‘ that looks like your lips have been stung by a thousand bees! Unfortunately, a lot of people have experienced Lip injections that have gone wrong.
Fuller lips are popular and sensuous and can help balance out other facial features.
So if you believe your lip shape or size is holding you back from having a balanced face or sizzling smile, our Injecting Team in Hawthorn (Melbourne) can help.
Lip injections use temporary fillers – which are solutions to help adjust the volume and size of the mouth by enhancing the lip area.
The procedure typically takes only minutes (typically under 15 minutes not excluding your pre-treatment Assessment, which can take up to an hour if it’s your first Injectables visit).
Our Injectors can also help you minimise any potential injecting discomfort using their special techniques.
Every patient is different, of course, and pain sensitivity can relate to genetics as well as how much caffeine you’ve had on the day or how much sleep you had (or hadn’t) the night before. However, Our Clinicians at Coco Ruby Skin & Anti-Ageing are adept at customising treatments for maximal comfort to meet the needs of individual patients.
In addition to balancing out or reducing a ‘gummy’ smile, lip enhancements are not only a beautiful solution. They have the longevity to keep you feeling confident in your looks, as well. We only use quality, temporary fillers, we can help you to achieve natural-looking but long-lasting results.
Besides, whilst eyebrow shaping trends and eyebrow makeup tends to change every few years, luscious lips are always in!
The most popular temporary injection solutions for lips contain a temporary-filler-solution (HA). This is a substance that is also naturally found within your body.
Our Clinicians use an approved temporary-filler-solution based products specifically because they can give natural-looking yet long-lasting results. And they can achieve this without the headaches of permanent fillers. (Ask our Clinician’s why they feel these are best avoided for the face and lips.)
In fact, the use of approved temporary-filler-solution fillers and other types of Injectables has become so popular that it is now one of the TOP non-invasive services performed in cosmetic procedure and plastic surgery Clinics.
(And why you should AVOID cheap fillers or diluted products and see only highly experienced Clinicians).
New strategies, new lip filler solutions that give more natural-feeling results when injected properly.
Our Senior Nurse Injector and our Facial Enhancement Cosmetic Physician are pleased to say that today’s strategies for injectables are more refined. AND they’re more effective than they were in their earliest decades of use. (Injectable treatments have been around for a LOT longer than you probably think!)
They are also dedicated to upskilling (ongoing training) and staying up-to-date with the latest techniques and filler solution advances.
And they won’t over-do your lips and leave you with a ‘trout pout’! (Read our other blog on how to avoid “Filler Over-Use Syndrome“).
A great Clinician Injecting Nurse or Aesthetic Physician will also be adamant about using only high-quality, non-diluted TEMPORARY fillers. They will not use permanent fillers, cheap injectables solutions, diluted products, or discount brands.
They will pay close attention to your entire facial structure and facial anatomy, and what you’re wanting to achieve. This helps give your face a better balance and a pleasing look – one you’ll feel great about when you see it in the mirror! You can always add volume. But, even with temporary fillers, removing volume is more challenging than having a second ‘top-up’ session for your lips.
Another change is that, in the past, cosmetic preparations mostly used collagen. Or they used permanent filler substances or lip augmentation surgery (with substantially more down time, intense swelling and less predictable results). But today, the use of dermal volumisers and subtle enhancements with injections containing HA or other muscle-relaxing ingredients are the standard in beauty care.
Follow along for insider tips and why lip enhancements are quickly becoming the most requested beauty services.
The most requested lip enhancement procedure is slightly fuller lips or more evenness in the lips.
Beyond adding fullness to the lips, correcting a Gummy smile is the second most requested service.
Correcting a gummy smile involves using a muscle-stabilizing injection above the lip area, in between your top lip and nose. For some patients, to fill the lip shape, your Clinician will use lip injections to create shape to the cupids bow for a more attractive shape.
Gummy smiles are with the upper area of the gum showing or a wide horizontal exposure of gum tissue. They can be corrected with certain techniques such as muscle suppressing injections to the upper lip, into the vertical columns located under your nose (philtrum). These techniques prevent the upper lip from moving too high.
Injections and fillers can also be used for many other areas of the face.
For a smile that looks more of a frown than an actual upturned smile, injections can also help!
When lip injections go wrong, you may find yourself feeling disappointed and wondering just what happened. And you may be wondering how you could have avoided the undesired result.
Almost everybody can think of at least one celebrity lip enhancement that went wrong, and the social media comments made about it. It’s easy to remember such terms as “trout pout” or “fish lips”.
Our Team at Coco Ruby is adamant that QUALITY brand injectables – rather than discount brands. We’re CONSERVATIVE rather than OVER-AMBITIOUS, Injecting professionals. These requirements are mandatory to get the best results and avoid ‘lip disasters.’
Firstly, a QUALITY injector uses the right products and high-quality brands. Secondly, they will start conservatively.
Some professionals inject right into the soft areas of the mouth and the vermillion only. Others work their way around the entire lip. Often, Injectors will inject into the vermillion, which gives a two-part lip injection but can look synthetic over time.
If your practitioner isn’t licensed, certified and sufficiently trained, your lip injections can go wrong. Injections can also go very wrong when a practitioner uses substances that aren’t approved for these treatments.
Don’t worry overly if you’ve had too much of an APPROVED temporary filler solution. Using solutions made with hyaluronidase can reverse the problem. This is an enzyme that can break down an approved temporary-filler-solution when a lump or nodule forms over an area that has been over injected. Or if it has responded unevenly to the treatment.
Here at Coco Ruby, we want you to feel fully comfortable with our Team and our injecting strategies – before you engage in any form of injectables treatment. Our Clinicians pride themselves on giving you honest opinions and full treatment information. This is because they feel it’s important that you understand what’s involved and how long the injections will last.
Our leading Injectors have over two decades of injecting experience. They also regularly upskill to keep abreast of the latest injecting techniques and product line information. So, they can help you get your lips right – the FIRST time (adding top-ups to increase your lip volume after you’ve had a chance to see how your new lips look). They can also help you overcome issues with previous lip injections that have gone wrong.
So, schedule your consultation. In fact, bring along some photos of lip styles you prefer as a discussion starting point. Our injectors will assist you in developing an injectables plan to get you the lips that will leave you smiling!
We will work together to create a lasting lip shape or size that will compliment your lifestyle and features.
Get started today.